Damian Thompson is Editor of Telegraph Blogs and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He was once described by The Church Times as a "blood-crazed ferret". He is on Twitter as HolySmoke. His latest book is The Fix: How addiction is taking over your world. He also writes about classical music for The Spectator.

Greek broadcasting falls silent. Why is this happening?

Answer: because Greece joined a joke currency called the euro, in a disastrous experiment that was naively and fanatically supported by Britain's state broadcaster. Perhaps the BBC should shut down in sympathy, at least for a day or two. I could live with that.